Comments on: Recent running books http://www.petestack.com/blog/running/recent-running-books.html Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:58:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.petestack.com/blog/running/recent-running-books.html/comment-page-1#comment-99 admin Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:01:24 +0000 http://www.petestack.com/blog/?p=856#comment-99 Just tweaked my blog settings to keep articles open for comment for 28 days instead of the 14 allowed before, so quoting Richie Cunningham's comments from my later 'Not quite more climbing' post where he'd have liked to post them in the first place: -------------------------------------------------- Hi Pete, I couldn't post a comment on your running books post so thought I'd post it here. I didn't know Ray Zahab had a book, he features in the film "Running the Sahara" about 3 runners who attempt to run over the Sahara desert (available from Blockbuster!). It's an excellent film, very interesting so I'll have to seek out his book. "Born to Run" is also one of the best running books I've read for a long time. Everytime my motivation for running needs a boost I pick it up and have a quick read. I'm not totally convinced about all the barefoot stuff though (and I say that as an owner of a pair of Vibram FiveFingers). Murakami's book wasn't for me, I managed about 50 pages but lost interest pretty quickly. I think it's heading for ebay soon! -------------------------------------------------- To which I might add that it took me a chapter or two to get into the Murakami book, but found it repaid the initial effort with more flow as it progressed. So perhaps something was lost in the translation or perhaps that's just the way it is, but I still thought it a good book as a whole. Just tweaked my blog settings to keep articles open for comment for 28 days instead of the 14 allowed before, so quoting Richie Cunningham’s comments from my later ‘Not quite more climbing’ post where he’d have liked to post them in the first place:

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Hi Pete, I couldn’t post a comment on your running books post so thought I’d post it here. I didn’t know Ray Zahab had a book, he features in the film “Running the Sahara” about 3 runners who attempt to run over the Sahara desert (available from Blockbuster!). It’s an excellent film, very interesting so I’ll have to seek out his book. “Born to Run” is also one of the best running books I’ve read for a long time. Everytime my motivation for running needs a boost I pick it up and have a quick read. I’m not totally convinced about all the barefoot stuff though (and I say that as an owner of a pair of Vibram FiveFingers). Murakami’s book wasn’t for me, I managed about 50 pages but lost interest pretty quickly. I think it’s heading for ebay soon!

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To which I might add that it took me a chapter or two to get into the Murakami book, but found it repaid the initial effort with more flow as it progressed. So perhaps something was lost in the translation or perhaps that’s just the way it is, but I still thought it a good book as a whole.

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